scholarly journals Yann Robert, Dramatic Justice. Trial by Theater in the Age of the French Revolution (Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2019)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Servanne Woodward
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Law And Literature ◽  
The French Revolution

Yann Robert identifies unfair and dangerous smearing campaigns as a preoccupation with the ethics of administrating justice in public versus secretly, as he pursues a relatively new trend of study between law and literature in Dramatic Justice. In this insightful volume, Robert evaluates what the legal system owes to the stage and vice versa, at a time when preoccupations with public judgment meets with an attempt to form a democracy to replace a monarchy.

The New Swiss Constitution: Foreign and International Influences

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter Haller
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Swiss Constitution ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Fundamental Rights And Freedoms ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The French Revolution

The comparative analysis of diverse constitutional orders enables a more sophisticated evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of different models and solutions. Quite often it also serves practical objectives, providing the impulse for improving our own legal system by carefully adopting institutions and procedures that have proven themselves elsewhere. In the case of the Swiss Constitution, the influence of thoughts and concepts developed during the French Revolution and by the Founding Fathers of the U.S. Constitution is quite obvious. More recently, international influences are most apparent in the field of fundamental rights and freedoms.

Ancient Revolutions in the Literature of Polish Romanticism

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-226
Author(s):  
Maciej Junkiert
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Classical Tradition ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
European Context ◽  
History Of ◽  
Classical Traditions ◽  
The French Revolution ◽  
Literary Reception

This article aims to examine the Polish literary reception of the French Revolution during the period of Romanticism. Its main focus is on how Polish writers displaced their more immediate experiences of revolutionary events onto a backdrop of ‘ancient revolutions’, in which revolution was described indirectly by drawing on classical traditions, particularly the history of ancient Greeks and Romans. As this classical tradition was mediated by key works of German and French thinkers, this European context is crucial for understanding the literary strategies adopted by Polish authors. Three main approaches are visible in the Polish reception, and I will illustrate them using the works of Zygmunt Krasiński (1812–1859), Juliusz Słowacki (1809–1849) and Cyprian Norwid (1821–1883). My comparative study will be restricted to four works: Krasiński's Irydion and Przedświt (Predawn), Słowacki's Agezylausz (Agesilaus) and Norwid's Quidam.

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